Entries Tagged as 'Team System Web Access (TWA)'

If you have more than 100 work items in a query and you use Tools » Report View to prepare the list for printing you might notice that not all work items are shown on the report. Here’s what Hakan Eskici, the father of Web Access, has to say about this: There’s a limit to […]

Solution provided by Hakan Eskici from Microsoft: If you are using the WIWA feature in the latest TSWA 2008 SP1, you may notice that it’s not possible to download attachment files from the work item window. As a workaround, you can edit Wiwa\UI\Pages\WorkItems\DownloadAttachment.aspx and modify the page directive to fix this by adding the HasPermission […]

Buck Hodges from Microsoft blogged about all the possible links you can construct to point to TSWA pages. For example the following URL opens the Work Item Editor: Open the existing work item with ID 1234: http://mytfs:8090/wi.aspx?id=1234 To make it simple I created a small tool that helps you construct those URLs in an easy […]

From Hakan Eskici’s blog: A security issue has been identified with Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and we have recently published an update that fixes it. Installation Notice Please note that this is a full release, so you will need to uninstall any existing versions of Web Access before installing this update. Update: Instructions […]

A: Microsoft posted a white paper on this. From the whitepaper: "Test results indicate that Web Access starts to hit the upper limits once the total number of work item objects in the memory is around 180. This translates to approximately 100 concurrent users with typical usage patterns." "Test results indicate that Web Access can […]

If you click on a hyperlink in an TFS notification mail the following (read-only) web page comes up instead of a nice looking Team System Web Access dialog. Let’s change that! Objective Make sure all links in the notification mails sent by TFS point to Team System Web Access (TSWA) rather than the integrated read-only […]

An underscore ("_") is not a supported character for a server name according to the RFC standards and therefore Windows will warn you when trying to use it as part of a DNS name. Symptoms ASP.NET applications that use session state, like Team System Web Access, will work when invoked using the IP (http://1.1.1.1:8090/) but […]

Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 comes equipped with 10 languages for its UI that will be displayed depending on your Internet browsers regional settings. You can set a language – independently what your browser settings by opening the Options dialog from the Settings menu. and choosing your preferred language on the “Regional settings” tab.

Beginning with TFS 2008 SP1 you can specify that only the necessary part of the Work Item meta data will be transferred to the client caches, e.g. not the meta data for project you have no permission on. This is not done by default. You can read all the glory details in Martin Woodward’s blog. […]

Requires: The use of HTML description fields in stead of the default description field. Team System Web Access (TSWA) to insert the pictures. Steps: Use a HTML fields for your descriptions instead of plan text fields(might need to copy the old descriptions programmatically). Add the image you want to use to the work item’s […]